Talk about inclined to give. Malarkey Roofing Products has donated materials to roof every house built this year by Central Oklahoma Habitat for Humanity — 40 in all.

Ann Felton Gilliland, CEO of Central Oklahoma Habitat for Humanity, and Jay Kreft, plant manager for Malarkey Roofing Products, talk at a Habitat house on SE 26, the first of 40 to be roofed this year with materials donated by Malarkey. Photo by NATE BILLINGS, The Oklahoman

The first roof was installed Wednesday in the Las Rosas neighborhood at SE 25 and Byers Avenue.

The gift is worth $120,000, plant manager Jay Kreft said.

“It's a great blessing and we're really pleased to have this new partner, and we want to welcome them to Oklahoma,” said Ann Felton Gilliland, CEO of Central Oklahoma Habitat. “This is one of the most generous gifts we have received.”

Malarkey Roofing, based in Portland, Ore., opened a factory at 3400 S Council Road last summer. Kreft said Malarkey is a longtime supporter of Habitat for Humanity. The ecumenical Christian ministry partners with donors and homeowners — who supply labor, “sweat equity” — to build houses that are then sold to low-income people at no profit with zero-interest loans.

“We have a 25-year tradition of working with Habitat for Humanity throughout the United States,” Kreft said.

“Over the course of that 25 years, we've donated over 1 million square feet of roofing products. We're just glad to be part of the community locally now with our new manufacturing facility here in Oklahoma City. We just look forward to giving back to the community that has been so generous and open to us coming here as a new manufacturer.”